Wool Advance In Iowa To Be 18 Cents A Pound This Year
Iowa dairy and feed innovations highlighted as grass silage tours in Decorah and Winneshiek County show farmers shaping ensilage practices. Enslage uses grass, clover, alfalfa and cane with molasses to boost dairy cow and steer feeding. interviews with Engen, Andera, Bodensteiner, and Will Beard describe methods and labor considerations. Maynard records show world and state butterfat standards reached by two Holstein heifers, Miss Edith Portage Fobes and Lady Portage Fobes, with high yields under official test at Ames and advanced registry.
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Decorah
Winneshiek
Alert Engen
Lester Engen
Otto E. Schmidt
Aase Haugen Home For
Albert Andera
Spillville
Andera
Joe Bodensteiner
Ossian
Bodensteiner
Will Beard
Mr. Beard
Everett Weigle
Maynard
P. P. Stewart
H. W. Norton
Madison
Wis
National Holstein Association
Edith Portage Fobes
Dairy Husbandry Department
Ames
Portage Fobes
Egg Market Steady With Easter Trade
Easter buying affects butter and eggs as arrivals rise but no price gains occur. Demand favors fancy large white and brown eggs while plainer types lag. Supplies this spring exceed last year, with peak movement likely in late April to May. Government action may follow weak prices. a Pacific coast egg cooperative opened a daily auction in New York to value top grade eggs, drawing moderate two carload sales daily.
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L. Brown
New York City
Mercantile Exchange
New York
Government wool loan revived for Iowa farmers
A V Brady of Des Moines announced government loans on wool will be available to Iowa farmers again this year via the state wool growers association. Loans on 4s and 44 blood staple will be about 18 cents per pound with any appreciation paid to the grower. The program mirrors last year, with the National Wool Marketing Corporation handling sales in Boston and a potential market improvement as the clip weight is lifted. Domestic mill demand is seen as probable early in 1939, while foreign market shifts may influence outcomes.
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Iowa
A V. Brady
Des Moines
The
Iowa and Sheep and Wool Growers Association
State Wool Growers’ Association
Brady
National Wool Marketing Corporation
Boston
United States
Ames economist Bunce leads roundtable on trade pacts
A roundtable on international trade pacts led by A C Bunce from Ames with Jackson county planning committee members. Bunce argued the Canadian cattle accord was a statesmanlike move by Secretary Hull that enables export of American heat and lard to England with a duty fee.
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Maquoreta
A. C. Bunce
Ames
Jackson County
Bunce
Hull
England
Soul Conservation by A Country Woman
A country woman notes the cyclical spring snow leaving impassable roads and sodden fields yet finds a quiet welcome in the season's turn to green pastures and wheat, reflecting on nature’s stubborn persistence.
Farm Auction Schedule Brightens Week in Iowa Expos
Coming farm auctions run Tuesday April 4 at Town Livestock Exchange in Cedar Rapids featuring horses. Wednesday April 5 M A Nielsen consignment sale at 342 miles southeast of Central City. George Hillgeson closes out 200 acre farm 8 miles northeast of Vinton. Thursday April 6 P N Gibson horses at West Liberty Mackie and Ca sale at Vinton fairgrounds.
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Town Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
M. A. Nielsen
Central City
George Hillgeson
Vinton
P. N. Gibson
West Liberty
Mackie and Ca
Vinton Fairgrounds
Kansas
Hereford
Texas
Beverly Cattle CO
Iowa
Wapasie C T A Averages 31 3 Pounds Butterfat
INDEPENDENCE The 440 cows on test in March in the Wapsie Valley Cow Test association averaged 790 pounds of milk and 31.3 pounds of butterfat Glenn Gavin tester reported The Arvid Magnusson herd of nine grade Holsteins was high drove with an average of 1 326 pounds of milk and 49 6 pounds of butterfat Top individual was a grade jersey owned by Clarence Boddicker She gave 1 345 pounds of milk and 67 3 pounds of butterfat
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Independence
Wapsie Valley Cow Test Association
Glenn Gavin
Arvid Magnusson
Clarence Boddicker
Linn County Cow Test Association March Milk Yields
E F Nation reports 543 cows tested in March in Linn County Cow Testing Association No 2 produced an average 605 pounds of milk and 26.1 pounds of butterfat for the herd. A W H Lenders Marion herd of 15 purebred Guernseys topped the association with 888 pounds of milk and 41.2 pounds of butterfat.
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E. F. Nation
Linn County
A. W. H. Lenders
Marion
Linn County Farm Bureau Week Calendar Items
Linn county Farm Bureau calendar lists week events including home project meetings in Washington and Grant townships with Mrs. C. H. Paul at 10 a.m. and a Farm Bureau board meeting at 8 p.m. at the Cedar Rapids office. Additional home project sessions are noted in Maine with Mrs. John Wager, Fayette with Mrs. Ralph Drake, and College and Putnam with Mrs. A. J. Minor at 10 a.m. each day.
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Linn County
Farm Bureau
Washington
Grant Townships
C. H. Paul
Farm Bureau Board
Cedar Rapids
Maine
John Wager
Fayette
Ralph Drake
College and Putnam
A. J. Minor
Java Materials Sent To Ames For Synthetic Lumber
Special to The Ouzette reports a 2 ton shipment of rice straw ulls cassava and sisal from Java to Ames Iowa for chemical engineers. Iowa State labs will test making pressboard for tea chests and rubber containers, using prior maizewood and milkweed research as a basis.
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Ouzette
Ames
Java
Dutch East Indies
Iowa State
Iowa State Laboratories
Stalks and Straw Components Listed in Feed Mix
Readable lines reference stalks from artichoke stems and oat, wheat and flax straw. The brief notes note plant parts used as feed or fiber materials. No further names or dates are present in the fragment.
Eleven Schools Entered For F F A Meet at Sigourney
SIGOURNEY Eleven schools will participate in a district Future Farmers of America contest at Sigourney on March 8. The events include public speaking extemporaneous speaking parliamentary procedure and the chapter contest.
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Sigourney
Future Farmers
Schools Race In Morning Meet For Nine Districts
At 9 15 a m schools participating include Chariton Corydon Denmark DeWitt Marengo Montezuma Montrose Muscatine Sigourney Tipton and West Branch in a morning district event.
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Chariton
Corydon
Denmark
DeWitt, Marengo
Montezuma
Montrose
Muscatine
Sigourney
Tipton and Weat Branch
Delhi Grange to Present Easter Program Monday Evening
Members of the Grange Of Delhi will present an Easter program at Grange hall here Monday evening with Mrs. P. L. Haas, home community chairman, in charge of the program.
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Delhi
Grange of
Grange Hall
P. L. Haas
Butter Sags at Central Markets Amid Price Declines
Butter prices fell sharply in New York and Chicago in the week’s latter half, with 92 score butter at New York quoted around 2344 cents and Chicago near 22% cents. government market review cites slackening demand and a rebound in wholesale prices curbing retail gains. Storage totals on March 25 reach 76.4 million pounds with DPMA FSCC and state agencies holding the bulk, while weekly receipts at four markets edge up slightly from last year.
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New York
Chicago
DPMA
FSCC
Farm Women Chorus In Winneshiek Plans April Concert
The Winneshiek county farm women's chorus announces a program combining drama and music on April 13 in Decorah. A play directed by Mrs. Ole Anderson features Pauline Johnson, Stella Hexom, and others. A brief Hansel and Gretel dramatization will be performed by several members, with the Meyer family orchestra of Castalia providing music.
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Gazette Decorah
Winneshiek County Farm Women's Chorus
Ole Anderson
Pauline Johnson
Stella Hexom
Albert Womeldorf
Ellis Pilgrim
Selma Wheatman
Nels Hovey
Ole Haugen
Dorothy Hovey
Constance Jacobson
Richard Grant
Walter Womeldorf
Richard Moen
Meyer
Castalia
Contour Demonstration Planned Near Ely April 5
A contour line layout and contour cropping strip demonstration will be held at the William Novak farm four miles north of Ely on Wednesday at 1.15 pm. Linn County Agent Rex Conn announced H. J. Schold of Marion will oversee the event. Conn noted strip cropping is a popular erosion control method adopted by many Linn County farmers this year for the first time.
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Ely
William Novak
Linn County
Rex Conn
H. J. Schold
Marion
Conn
Tama 4-H reports 57 baby beeves fed this season
Special to The Gasette notes Tama county 4-H program activity with 28 boys and girls feeding 57 baby beeves this season. Five purebred beef heifer club members feed eleven head in total.
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Toledo
Herman Cropsey
Tama County
Roundtable on Farm Banking Inspires Benton County
In Winton Benton County eastern Iowa a semi managed roundtable on farming finance drew about 250 attendees including many newly married couples. Stead Carpenter of Monticello faced a flood of questions from farmers while young locals offered ideas. The event highlighted government credit agencies and FSA reach, urging bankers to expand profitable lending to new farmers and warning of a shift to federal market control.
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Iowa
Winton
Carpenter
Monticello
Farm Security Administration
FSA
Uncle Sam
Public Sale at Vinton Fair Grounds Opens April 6
Public sale at the Vinton fair grounds begins at 12 30 PM on Thursday April 6 featuring horses and machinery. Catalog highlights include two brood mares, a well matched team, a 2 3 year old gelding pair, a 1300 pound heifer, multiple cows and a range of farm implements and a nearly new two wheel tractor planter and other equipment from McCormick Deering.
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Sears
Prastwalty
Bores
Tiaatn
Teel
A. P. Wagent Bicken
Mereon
Farrereas
Vinton
Urbana
Cheney
Merse
Ene Singh
Cathalie Saat Pellectine
Tony Sehmits
van Werne
Leac
Erin
McCormick-Dearling
George Hill Schmitz
McCormick- Deering
McCormick-Deering
Delivery Bay
Janesville
R. W. Remer
Linn county seals 790 905 bushels of corn for loans
R B Booth Linn county AAA committeeman in charge of corn loans reports that at the close of the sealing program on March 31 a total of 923 loans were made at 57 cents a bushel on 790 905 bushels of grain. The aggregate loan amount was 450 226 13 compared with Linn county in 1934 when the program began.
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R. B. Booth
Linn County
AAA
Booth
Farm Debt Advisory Board Meeting Scheduled
The farm debt advisory board will meet at the resettlement office on the third floor of the Post Office building in Cedar Rapids at 1 30 p m on Monday. Chairman C B F Michel announced the coming session.
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Farm Debt Advisory Board
Post Office
Cedar Rapids
C. B. F. Michel
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Stewart
Grass Ensilage
Gazette
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Farm Bureau Calendar
Cedar Valley Farm Business Association
Association
Ead
Stanley Nicol
Center
O. B. Hampton
Whittier
Nicol
Benton
Jones
Tama
Marshall
Grundy
Batler
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Clements & Schmitz
Mera
Farm Women’s Chorus In
Third Street
Mackie & CO
Sehmlts & Long
Levler Richart, Ci
Linn
Joseph Kushner
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